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AIDS in Adolescents

AIDS In Adolescents:  Keeping All Our Kids Safe:

If you think that AIDS only affects straight teens, you’re wrong!  Young people aged 13 to 24 account for half of all new AIDS infections each year, and many of those kids are straight young people engaging in the most traditional kinds of sexual interaction.  And one reason why AIDS is so widespread is that we’ve dropped the ball on teaching our children the most important message: PREVENTION.  Meet a mother who lost her daughter to AIDS, and let her, along with a renowned AIDS expert and a teenaged peer educator, teach you how to prevent your child from becoming an AIDS statistic.

Guests:  

  • Donna Futterman, MD: Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Director, Adolescent AIDS Program, Montefiore Medical Center; Member, Committee on Pediatric AIDS, AAP; Member of adolescent AIDS advisory committees to the US Public Health Service
  • Kristen Lima: Board Member, Mothers' Voices (Manhattan-based AIDS education and support organization for parents)
  • Yolanda Palmer: 17 year old AIDS peer educator

Resources:

   AIDS Hotlines:

U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) AIDS Hotlines:
English: 1-800-342 2437
Spanish: 1-800-344-7432

Mothers' Voices (education and advocacy):
1-888-MVOICES

Adolescent AIDS Program:
1-718-882-0322

CDC National Prevention Information Network:
1-800-458-5231

   Websites:

CDC National Prevention Information Network: http://www.cdcnpin.org/

Mother's Voices: http://www.mvoices.org/

Adolescent AIDS: http://www.adolescentaids.org/


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